By Kim Velsey 7/17/12 11:59am

Manhattan Transfers

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Smith and Mapplethorpe's first home hits the market

Clinton Hill Townhouse Where Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe First Lived Hits Market For $1 M.

The building where Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith shared their first apartment has hit the market! But in order to live in the Clinton Hill townhouse prospective owners will need to pony up more than the $80 a month that the couple paid to rent the second floor in 1967—the owner is asking $1 million.

In her book Just Kids, Ms. Smith writes about their first apartment at 160 Hall Street, where the two stayed up late painting and listening to records, making their early forays into the creative endeavors that would shape their lives. Read More

By Emily Witt 8/15/11 12:12pm

Now A Major Motion Picture

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Patti Smith and John Logan to Adapt Just Kids For the Screen

Patti Smith will collaborate with John Logan (who wrote Any Given Sunday and Steven Spielberg’s forthcoming biopic Lincoln) on a screen adaptation of Just Kids. We vote for Charlotte Gainsbourg as Patti. (Or is that a terrible idea? She’s a little old for the part, no? Who smokes enough cigarettes these days?) And maybe Chloe Sevigny and Kristen Dunst as runner ups? Read More

By Ralph Gardner Jr. 6/03/02 12:00am

Crime Blotter

Con Artists Caught Red-Handed;

Arrest Causes ‘Allergic Reaction’

In much the same way that the bird-watchers in Central Park get palpitations at the sight of a Connecticut warbler or a Louisiana waterthrush, so the cops have trouble containing their excitement when they happen upon a con game in progress, as the 19th Precinct’s grand-larceny Read More

By Frank DiGiacomo 8/16/99 12:00am

Mapplethorpe Estate Settles Defamation Suit Against Christie’s

Mapplethorpe Rests

On July 30, the heated legal skirmish that began six years ago when Michael Ward Stout, executor of the estate of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, initiated a $200 million defamation suit against Christie’s, came to a disarmingly quiet end. A single-paragraph statement on plain, letterhead-free paper noted that the auction house, the Mapplethorpe estate Read More

By Frank DiGiacomo 5/17/99 12:00am

Mapplethorpe Foundation Livid Over Miller Gallery’s Sex Show

The letter from the Robert Miller Gallery to the president of the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation came without warning. Dated March 18 and addressed to attorney Michael Ward Stout, who is the Mapplethorpe estate’s executor and the foundation’s president, the letter is signed by Mr. Miller’s wife, Sarah (Betsy) Wittenborn Miller, who is the gallery’s chief Read More